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Brilliant British buildings

Find out which six amazing structures are vying for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2021

BBC Arts

A great gallery of your artworks from Life Drawing Live!

Here's a selection of the brilliant creations you shared and submitted during our live art class on Sunday night

BBC Arts

Winona, Interrupted

Inside Cinema charts the spectacular rise, fall and comeback of era-defining star and Generation X icon Winona Ryder

BBC iPlayer

New on BBC iPlayer

Inside America's Treasure House: The Met

Documentary series filmed inside America's biggest art museum as it prepares for its 150th anniversary

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Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life

The acclaimed playwright tells Alan Yentob the extraordinary story of his life in this brand new episode of imagine...

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Proms 2021 on BBC iPlayer

The world's greatest classical music festival - live from the Royal Albert Hall

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New on BBC Sounds

North East Scotland

Writer and performer Shane Strachan celebrates Doric in the latest episode of Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets

BBC Sounds

New Creatives Dramas

Fresh storytelling from first-time writers and producers

BBC SOUNDS

BBC Introducing Arts

Huw Stephens is your guide to experimental music, soundscapes, spoken word and documentary from exciting, fresh artists

BBC Sounds

New works by D/deaf, neurodivergent and disabled artists

Spectrum Sounds

Seven experimental compositions born out of Andrew Hugill's aurally diverse and synaesthetic sense of hearing

BBC TASTER

Aisle

Animation and vocal soundscape explore the everyday ableism faced by disabled people.

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Complexity of Skin

Two neurodivergent people's desire for touch collides with the discomfort it causes.

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Earth To Alice

Alice is not ok. Post-psychiatric hospital, she needs more than meds. She needs paint.

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Face It - Abbey

Ambitious Abbey is hell-bent on holding back the years, with some help from Muhammad Ali.

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Face It - Leonie

Straight-talking Leonie is confident her acquired visual difference won’t hinder her.

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Hen Night

Fiercely independent Jessica’s ‘last night of freedom’ is far from what we could imagine.

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Louder Is Not Always Clearer

Jonny is Deaf - his superpower is lip reading. But that doesn’t mean everything makes sense.

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Pandemic Parenting - Pandemonium

A dance theatre piece exploring the challenges for parents during lockdown.

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Silent World

Visualising the Covid-19 pandemic through the eyes of Signkid, a deaf-rapper.

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The Cat, The Mouse and The Sausage

Three strangers sharing a small flat encounter big problems in this animated adaptation.

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How To Thrive In 2050!

A call for action for a creative, equitable and ‘neuro-fantastic’ future by an octopussy.

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Exciting interactives from BBC New Creatives

An escape room with a difference

Artist Rosa Francesca combined facial recognition software with the escape room format to create the Gallery of You

BBC New Creatives

Can a virtual canoe trip help ease anxiety and depression?

This new 360-degree video experience aims to make it easier for everyone to connect to the natural world

BBC Arts

A rare glimpse of Asante customs

Artist Anita Safowaa has used cutting-edge technology to reveal rarely-seen moments of Ghanaian oral history

BBC NEW CREATIVES

Inside Cinema

The Gay Best Friend

A limiting, outdated, stereotype - or empowering representation? James Victoria Luxford explores for Inside Cinema

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Boss Ladies

From Working Girl to The Devil Wears Prada, Jan Asante salutes the defiant, complex women of the workplace comedy-drama

BBC iPlayer

Hollywood's Eastern Futures

Zing Tsjeng asks why does Western cinema's vision of the future look so East Asian?

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Manchester International Festival 2021 - Postcards From Now

Breathless Puppets

Rotoscope animation powers this dance film by Akram Khan and Naaman Azhari.

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Download and Run Zoom

A digital collaboration between Lucinda Childs and the Ballet National de Marseille

BBC iPlayer

Far Away From Russia

The routine of an elderly person and a carer as an unexpected act of love and resistance

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Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

BBC Contains Strong Language 2021

Loyle Carner and Simon Armitage are among those performing at the poetry and spoken word festival in September

Contains Strong Language

Curtain-Up on Coventry

The city's streets are transformed into a giant stage to celebrate becoming UK City of Culture 2021

BBC iPLAYER

Coventry Moves Together

A soundscape of a city-wide orchestra for Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

BBC SOUNDS

Elsewhere in Arts & Culture

The muse of Paul Gauguin

The Tahitian woman behind the Post-Impressionist's paintings

ART UK

The Central Office of Information at 75

Collaborating with The National Archives and IWM, the BFI showcase the eclectic range of work produced by the department

BFI at Home

Stories from Holburne Museum with Josie Long

Staff and volunteers share their favourite objects, personal picks and hidden gems from the Bath museum

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